How the other half campaigns

The presidential race’s spending reports make it hard to think of the contenders as just folks — as if their personal wealth already didn’t. Among the second-quarter nuggets, as noted by the New York Times:
Mitt Romney spent $31,000 to rent Boston’s Fenway Park for a barbecue, and $300 for make-up appointments (including one he missed) at a California salon.
Barack Obama spent $40,000 at the Chicago restaurant Carnivale. He has 23 offices in Iowa and six in New Hampshire. And on the same day he told a union gathering in New Jersey that he would not shop at Wal-Mart, some of his New Hampshire staffers spent $93.92 on office supplies at a Wal-Mart.
Hillary Clinton spent $44,424 on photography.
Rudy Giuliani paid $74,603 for supplies and catering at country clubs, including $53,685 at Trump International in Florida.
Chris Dodd spent $650 on carbon offsets.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

6 Comments

  1. ksfarmgrrl
    Posted July 30, 2007 at 5:49 am | Permalink

    heheheheh. So the mittster spent “$300 for make-up appointments (including one he missed) at a California salon”?

    Kinda makes those John Edwards haircuts look reasonable. And mitt is a multimillionaire. Like Edwards.

    But in republiCON land, there is a difference.

    $400 haircuts = bad$300 makeup job = good

    Only in wingnuttia. IOKIYAAR

  2. Danny
    Posted July 30, 2007 at 9:33 am | Permalink

    KFG,

    But it was $100 less. ;) This coming from a conservative. LOL

  3. SolDevVB
    Posted July 30, 2007 at 9:41 am | Permalink

    “Barack Obama spent $40,000 at the Chicago restaurant Carnivale.”

    Did that include the tip?

    Not to worry. Bet the Carlyle Group picked up that tab…

  4. fred
    Posted July 30, 2007 at 11:27 am | Permalink

    But if the Carlyle picked up the tab for Mitt Romney or Rudy Guilani then it would be okay?

  5. cosmos
    Posted July 30, 2007 at 11:51 am | Permalink

    “Barack Obama spent $40,000 at the Chicago restaurant Carnivale.”

    AND…

    ‘Big day of fundraisers for Obama’http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama_9jun09,0,5859367.story“The [Carnivale] event, believed to have netted between $1 million to $1.5 million, was among the most profitable of Obama’s campaign so far.”

  6. Wiseman
    Posted July 30, 2007 at 1:18 pm | Permalink

    What make it a terrible waste of money are the returning values from the transactions.Kind of like tobacco, once it reaches the consumer, it goes up in smoke at the same time it converts to a negative result.